“It’s hard to really hear her voice with all that jigaboo music — whatever you want to call it — jigaboo!”

Capel claimed she didn't know the meaning of the word and offered one of those "if you were offended" half apologies. Later, she tweeted a more complete apology.

Yesterday, after the video went viral, Raw Story reported that Capel had been suspended for the rest of the week (three days): "However, executives would not confirm if Capel had been formally suspended, or if she was being paid for the remainder of the week," Raw Story noted.

You can file this under "Better Late Than Never" and "Something Is Better Than Nothing."

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Bullying, Bill? Read my post about when this happened. Read my comment on this thread about how if she worked for me, I’d leave it at she has to give the apology on-air, the she’d be given time away to let it cool down.

No one is bullying her- They’re reporting that she wasn’t actually sorry in her first apology, and that the network had to be pressured into taking some kind of action to ease the outrage. There’s a difference, and if this is bullying, how do you feel about the calls for O’Reilly to be suspended on how he’s responding to his on-air lies being called out?

I heard this audio and it’s clear the woman had no idea what she was saying and thought she was saying a nonsense onomotopoeia term. Fox News and its parent News Corp. are plainly racist as a corporate policy, for political reasons. But this poor woman just misspoke. Leave her alone and stop bullying her.

One thing I said discussing this when I was writing the first one up was that, if she worked for me, I would have made her give a formal apology on the air (not twiter, Facebook, G+, etc.), then suspended her for 3 days to a business week for this to cool down. When people who asked me why so light, I simply replied that I can believe she didn’t know what the word meant, though I don’t believe for a second that she didn’t know it was a slur. And I usually followed up with a joke about how she’s at least more self-accountable than Bill O’Reilly will ever be.

Which brings me to something I wanna ask-

@michael: My personal experience with hearing racists use that word is that I’ve only heard it used against black women. In fact, the only time I heard it used on a man was in a “Don’t be a bitch!” comment. Ironically, that’s also the only time I’ve ever heard a black person use it on another black person. Even in movies, it seems like it’s only used against women, or in emasculation comments. But I’ve never seen a definitive definition for it, I just assumed it was an N-Word surrogate in official capacity, but something gender specific on the street.

I live in Cleveland and saw this and I think she didn’t know what the word meant. I also teach a class in African American history and have discovered (and have been gladdened by) that many students (especially white kids) are unaware of some of the “traditional” racial slurs. She looks young enough to have missed a lot of that stuff. Also, she and the other anchor, Wayne Dawson, who is African American seems to get along fine and have a really good rapport so I don’t think she would have done anything like that if she knew what it meant.